Scallops
| Scallops | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | XU-Fjella in the Heimefrontfjella | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ S , 9 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Jakobsenknatten ( Norwegian ) is a rocky outcrop in the Heimefrontfjella of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises in the northern part of the XU-Fjella .
Scientists at the Norwegian Polar Institute named it in 1985 after the journalist Sigurd Jakobsen (* 1910), a leader of the resistance movement against the German occupation of Norway in World War II .
Web links
- Jackknatten in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
- Jackknatten in the Norwegian Polar Institute directory